Speed run of Metroid Zero Mission on hard mode with 100% item collection in 15 segments, completed on September 15 2006. Available in three versions: low quality, normal quality, and high quality.

Author's comments:
Alright, first off, there are some people I would like to thank. Thanks to
Nate and DJGrenola for rescuing segment 1 of my run after I thought the disc
was ruined. Thanks to Nate and Radix for running these great websites and
for capturing the run. Thanks to Sparky for sending me one of his GCN-GBA
Link cables after mine had become unusable. Thanks to Red Scarlet for
creating the amazing route that I use in this speedrun. Thanks to AJBolt89
for recording his amazing 1:00:59 run, because that helped a lot as it was a
source I could go back to over and over again to see how I should progress
through certain sections of the game. Thanks to Saber for kindly allowing me
to use some space on the web to upload the segments of the run. And lastly,
thanks to everyone over at M2K2 for giving me encouragement along the way.
This run wouldn't have been possible if not for all the people I listed
above. Thank you all.

Now about the run, when I began recording, my goal was to make a run that
was an MZM equal to Red Scarlet's Super Metroid :55 100% run, which is
pretty much my favorite speedrun to watch, and most likely always will be. I
can't say I have succeeded, as my run isn't without its share of ugly
mistakes (missed jumps in segment 1, a bad Sidehopper room in segment 2,
missed the bomb jump at the end of segment 4, to name a few), but I feel
like it's not too far off either.

I was expecting to get 0:58:4x as my ending time, because I didn't think I
would be able to shave off much time from my previous (unrecorded) 0:58:59
run. As you can see, I surprised myself by getting 0:58:24. I'd say that sub
58 is humanly possible on console, but I'll also say that I doubt anyone
will ever do it, and certainly not me. Who knows though?

Now that the run is finally complete, I don't think that I'll be doing any
more speedrunning for a nice long while. I will definitely consider
speedrunning any other 2D Metroid games they may make in the future though.

That's about all I have to say, if you have any questions, just email me
(Kridly@Hotmail.com) or pm me on the M2K2 forums or something. I hope you
all enjoy watching the run!

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